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Quotes By: "We need to carefully maintain a channel of dialogue. Iran is an important country. You must deal with it with respect and dignity." - Amano in a February interview praising President Obama's willingness to sit down with Iranian officials (Reuters...
Quotes About: "He's a nonproliferation and disarmament guy, and he believes in it. He has been around in trying to keep the inspections in Iran going, and I expect him to continue very much in that line. He will not want to create a situation in which military action is the only alternative." - David A. Kay, a former IAEA official and a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (New York Times, July...
...Read "The Next Round of the U.S.-Iran Nuclear Face...
President Barack Obama's year of outreach to Iran has succeeded in putting it on the diplomatic defensive: that much was clear from Friday's blunt reproach of Tehran by the International Atomic Energy Agency's board. But it's less clear that Obama can convert that diplomatic advantage into sanctions that will curtail Iran's nuclear program. "The question is," says one senior Democratic aide in Congress, "Can Obama pivot [from engagement to sanctions] and succeed in changing conditions on the ground?" Iran is betting he can't. On Sunday, two days after the IAEA rebuke, Tehran approved plans...
...stepping up its efforts to approve new sanctions at the United Nations Security Council. It is also encouraging even tougher measures among like-minded allies - the European Union may adopt new penalties in mid-December. And the U.S. Congress is moving closer to passing new sanctions legislation. "We hope Iran will see the IAEA vote as disturbing" and will change course, a senior Administration official says. But for now, he adds, "We are now working to see what sanctions might be put in place." (See pictures of the world's worst nuclear disasters...